Reed Derek D, Kaplan Brent A
University of Kansas.
Behav Anal Pract. 2011 Fall;4(2):15-24. doi: 10.1007/BF03391780.
The application of the matching law has historically been limited to use as a quantitative measurement tool in the experimental analysis of behavior to describe temporally extended patterns of behavior-environment relations. In recent years, however, applications of the matching law have been translated to clinical settings and populations to gain a better understanding of how naturally-occurring events affect socially important behaviors. This tutorial provides a brief background of the conceptual foundations of matching, an overview of the various matching equations that have been used in research, and a description of how to interpret the data derived from these equations in the context of numerous examples of matching analyses conducted with socially important behavior. An appendix of resources is provided to direct readers to primary sources, as well as useful articles and books on the topic.
匹配法则的应用在历史上一直局限于作为行为实验分析中的一种定量测量工具，用于描述行为与环境关系的时间扩展模式。然而，近年来，匹配法则的应用已被转化到临床环境和人群中，以更好地理解自然发生的事件如何影响具有社会重要性的行为。本教程简要介绍了匹配的概念基础，概述了研究中使用的各种匹配方程，并通过众多对具有社会重要性的行为进行匹配分析的示例，描述了如何解释从这些方程中得出的数据。还提供了资源附录，引导读者查阅主要资料来源以及有关该主题的有用文章和书籍。
